List of figures
Figure 1.Branches and sub-branches of mechanical engineering
Figure 2.The procedure for constructing the present corpus
Figure 3.Preliminary sampling frame in the book
Figure 4.Adjusted sampling frame
Figure 5.Move analysis procedure
Figure 6.The iterative move analysis procedure
Figure 7.Examples of parts of a sentence split
Figure 8.A diagram depicting data processing procedures and types of analysis
Figure 9.Stages for annotating articles with rhetorical functions
Figure 10.Composition of the mechanical engineering text
Figure 11.Move/step range and length in the introduction section
Figure 12.Collocation on the move level in the introduction
Figure 13.Move/step range and length in the methods section
Figure 14.Collocation on the move level in the methods
Figure 15.Move/step range and length in the results-discussion section
Figure 16.Collocation on the move level in the results-discussion
Figure 17.Move/step range and length in the conclusion section
Figure 18.Collocation on the move level in the conclusion
Figure 19.Range and length of other functions
Figure 20.Functional distribution of the research-oriented n-grams across the article
sections (tokens)
Figure 21.Functional distribution of the research-oriented n-grams across the article
sections (types)
Figure 22.Functional distribution of the text-oriented n-grams across the article
sections (types)
Figure 23.Functional distribution of the text-oriented n-grams across the article
sections (tokens)
Figure 24.Functional distribution of the participant-oriented n-grams across the
article sections (types)
Figure 25.Functional distribution of the participant-oriented n-grams across the
article sections (tokens)
Figure 26.Distribution of the structural categories across the functional categories
(tokens)
Figure 27.Distribution of the structural categories across the functional categories
(types)
Figure 28.The interaction between the specific structures and the specific
functions
Figure 29.Distribution of the functional categories across the article sections
(types)
Figure 30.Distribution of the functional categories across the article sections
(tokens)
Figure 31.The interaction between the structural sub-categories of the n-grams and the
rhetorical functions
Figure 32.The association between the functional sub-categories of the n-grams and the
rhetorical functions